Use Your Cheap Webhosts To Proxy Your SOCKS Puppets

Sometimes there are forums with such authority and respect in your niche that you are more or less required to be on them.

There are situations where it doesn’t really make sense to outsource comments/posts such as:

• The niche is so esoteric that outsource people will have no way to add value to the topics.

• You know the forum and its people because you are very interested in the niche, thus you really know the “vibe” of forum and will know where/what to post.

• Your niche is replete with paranoid or skeptical prospects.

• Sometimes on the forum/blog it makes sense to “be yourself” or be the face of your website, but of course you don’t want people to know your sock puppet is you.

There are other reasons and chances are that at some point or another you have come to the conclusion that you need to invent a knowledgeable and respected sock puppet thus you can’t outsource the problem easily.

Use Technology to Distance You From Your Sock Puppet

Each sock puppet in my muppet show has its own Firefox Profile. This includes bookmarks, rss feeds, etc… etc… which are on-topic or associated with fake location of the puppet, this will make it easy to get a new idea of what to talk about if you don’t know already and will keep you in character. If your proxy puts in in Texas you might want to be able to throw in name of some medium size cities in your post to give you creditability. I was driving between east bumflok and west nowhere when i started looking at my vintage, handcrafted spirit bracelets and thought i need to get to vintageawsome.faux and buy some for Jacklin who works at the chop shop on corner of 7th and Pine

You want to use firefox’s profile manger and User Agent Switcher plugin to change your user agent string so that can’t be

You can use (just about) any cheap webhost who gives ssh access (one of my minimum requirements for a webhost) using the ssh -D 127.0.0.1:8888 username@myhost.faux on your home box*.

You then set your SOCKS proxy to 127.0.0.1 and port 8888. With a different user agent, a different IP and a character you are free method act your new SOCKSPuppet.

Of course if your cheap web hosting has some obvious footprints to your main site (not SEO footprints, but human noticeable) footprints then you might not be as safe if the webmaster of the forum you are posting at is really astute or really determined. But because your Farmers/Pollinators are so broad a topic and you switch up your posts a bit on the forum (every post shouldn’t link to your site of course) then you should fly well below the radar.

Using this extremely powerful method has worked really well for me^H^H some person i heard about once somewhere.

This method almost certainly will NOT work if you are in a really skeptical market like any make money, HYIP, Cashinos etc… type niche. It can work well for niches which have many civilian consumers (handbags, jewelery, tile floors, air conditioners, etc…).

If you aren’t building sock puppets, you really should set up accounts NOW “just in case.” The two things that are most easy for users to recognize are the age of your sock puppet’s account and the post count. So set up the accounts as soon as possible (like months in advance is a good idea) and put in your first couple of posts and maybe one post every two weeks after the first flurry of insightful, non-promotional posts.

For advanced users, you can actually give some positive feedback on your competition at first and THEN go back and say i was using blah blah blah link-to-old-post, but then i found awsomevintage.faux and they had everything that competitorvintage.faux had but also these really cool advantages … so now i use awsomevintage.faux

You have good IPs that you are not using to full advantage SSH -D is your friend.

I will stop, I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things when I’m puppeteering.
I trust I can rely on your vote.

When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
Ha ha ha

Riot shields, voodoo economics,
it’s just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F.
I trust I can rely on your vote.

Listen to Jonny Greenwood Rip This Song Up

* Note that in windows you can use puTTY instead of the ssh command line client. The options are under Tunnel.